Tony Castro's America

The Women Behind 'Gehrig & The Babe' Feud

In Gehrig & the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud (Triumph Books), author Tony Castro describes a relationship more at home on Page Six than in the sports pages. Women, Castro says, doomed the relationship between the two eventual Hall of Famers.

 

The Babe himself admitted it, telling confidant Johnny Grant, “Most people don’t know this, but we had a falling out . . . we didn’t talk for years.” Grant asked what was behind it. “Women,” Ruth said. “It’s always broads.”

 

My Muse? Maybe the Ghosts in My Home

 

My muse? A writer to my blog asks. Beyond my wife and sons, I don't know. Maybe it's the spirit of Budd Schulberg who lived in my L.A. house in the late 1930s. Or the ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald who would visit him while they wrote the screenplay for Winter Carnival and sometimes crashed here.

'Mantle: The Best There Ever Was'

Get ready for spring training with the best read of the season, Mantle: The Best There Ever Was, from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. #MantleTheBest http://mickeymantle.live

'Gehrig & The Babe' Best Book of the Year Finalist

Good news. Just been notified that GEHRIG & THE BABE is a finalist for the Casey Award given out to the best baseball book of the year! #GehrigTheBabe https://amzn.to/2JL9Lgt

The Best There Ever Was, Book Trailer

This book trailer is for New York Times bestselling author Tony Castro's forthcoming Mantle: The Best There Ever Was from Rowman & Littlefield International. Pre-order at Amazon.